https://evening-school.org http://www.evening-school.org Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:41:54 +0000 https://evening-school.org en http://evening-school.org/Denial-is-Over Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:41:54 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 426587 http://evening-school.org/waza Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:03:03 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 415624 Leçon #1: Amours dans un espace-temps dangereuxÉcole du soir à Lubumbashi&nbsp;Centre d'art Waza Lundi 29 novembre, 20218 pm Lubumbashi /1 pm New York Animé par Christian Nyampetaen compagnie de quelques fantômes communs Leçon inauguraleÉcole du soir à Lubumbashi: Lancement, Residency at Large, Centre d'art Waza Jeudi 30 septembre, 20215.30 pm Lubumbashi /11.30 am New York Christian Nyampetaen dialogue avec Patrick Mudekereza Leçon #1: Amours dans un espace-temps dangereuxÉcole du soir à Lubumbashi&nbsp;Centre d'art Waza Lundi 29 novembre, 20218 pm Lubumbashi /1 pm New York Animé... http://evening-school.org/how Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:41:26 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 407509 How to Live Together: A Dialogue Between Roland Barthes and Isaïe Nzeyimana <img width="1578" height="991" width_o="1578" height_o="991" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ec7d66d32d768716389b75999b5b4dec6216f2935a39fabca0ee0eb0fd8a0ebb/6_190930_Nyampeta-PhD-Thesis.jpg" data-mid="1099259" border="0" /> Under supervision of Kodwo Eshun.With Jean-Paul Martinon, and the assistance of Nicole Wolf. Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2020 PhD Examiners: Denise Ferreira da Silva; Leela Gandhi MPhil Examiners: Avery Gordon; Stefan Nowotny “How to Live Together” stages a speculative dialogue between French literary theorist Roland Barthes and contemporary Rwandan philosopher Isaïe Nzeyimana, drawing from Comment vivre ensemble, Barthes’s lectures at Collège de France translated by Kate Briggs in 2013 as How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulation of Some Living Spaces. The thesis focuses on rhythm, or rather idios-rhythm, derived from Barthes’s and Nzeyimana’s respective understanding of rest and movement or generosity. It expands on Nzeyimana’s insight that only those who have something in common can enter the conflict, particularly as such conflict is rendered through the planetary conditions that marked the last twenty-five years in the Great Lakes of East Africa. Paradoxically, even if this common bond can break, the same bond can also allow for a future dialogue to take place. In this background, the thesis formulates theories and fictions that may help to outdate the notion of race. This is done by looking at practical examples that move the understanding of community from an intersubjective condition to an intrasubjective relation, whereby conflict is constitutive of the very notion of community. This hypothesis is explored by focusing on the desedimentation of paleonyms in a process that raises new questions about memory, difference, heritage and belonging. Along the way, the thesis traces the evolution of the figures of the artist and the philosopher in Rwanda and beyond. These formulations are nurtured by the sociography of the research, understood as a transcreative meandering through the fields of literature, history, theology and philosophy, supported by insights and encounters from Nyampeta’s own practice within contemporary art and design studies. Part of this practice is an artistic sequence in which artists, theorists, mythologists and translators in Rwanda and further afield—who would otherwise never meet—gather at the level of videographic montage and exhibitionary formats. How to Live Together: A Dialogue Between Roland Barthes and Isaïe Nzeyimana Under supervision of Kodwo Eshun.With Jean-Paul... http://evening-school.org/long Fri, 28 May 2021 20:01:01 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 406323 A Long Evening with Christian NyampetaStorefront for Art and Architecture April 26–May 26, 2021, New York<img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f9d6625c311458c347abbcc63c3ac15b287da6622e94bbfe01dc27ca5bd88d6f/Christian-Nyampeta-Storefront-Long-Evening-0.jpg" data-mid="1093092" border="0" /><img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/df9cfe209b03ad1a2950d775cae4ae216a47f434c7890365bf66b5f3c88a0d6f/Christian-Nyampeta-Storefront-Long-Evening-1.jpg" data-mid="1093093" border="0" /><img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/768da6e6a64dd3764bb32e3eb0208f1d6e0f058c0e32c8b7a1c64d8c6c961bfc/Christian-Nyampeta-Storefront-Long-Evening-3.jpg" data-mid="1093094" border="0" /> ← An extended meta-concert at Storefront for Art and Architecture spatializing artist Christian Nyampeta’s recent album, An Evening with Christian Nyampeta.Over the course of the last decade, Nyampeta has been making musical experiments as a way to commemorate the shifts caused by major events: the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Syrian Civil War, police shootings, the intensification of tyrannical regimes, and the current pandemic, to name a few.A Long Evening with Christian Nyampeta, like its namesake album, is presented during a brief hiatus in the regular course of operating, born as an impromptu act of solidarity. It stretches that brief period of time that sits between day and night, between public and private, between outside and inside, between what the world is and what it could be. A Long Evening with Christian NyampetaStorefront for Art and Architecture April 26–May 26, 2021, New York ← An extended meta-concert at Storefront for Art and... http://evening-school.org/search-1 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:55:02 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 387181 Search Sweet Country Dec 5, 2019; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm MA Curatorial Practice Project SpaceSchool of Visual Arts, NY <img width="1234" height="823" width_o="1234" height_o="823" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/bf086a64e849b72042aca91a3dd7386e541f36fd5a9c164f60d15867619a8a08/Christian-Nyampeta-Search-Sweet-Country-SVA-NYC_.jpg" data-mid="992664" border="0" />← Translations, remixes, re-recordings, and recompositions that summon sculptures, images, sounds and movement for a lyrical performance about longing and belonging. The performance is conceived as a rehearsal and a spatialization of a musical album in progress, devised as a sonic catalog of songs recorded before, during and in the aftermath of major historical events that marked the last 25 years of the present moment. The songs are revisited by Nyampeta in the format of an “audio-social structure,” in collaboration and cooperation with contemporary linguists and musicians, through translations, remixing, rerecording and recompositions. The evening and the forthcoming album feature interludes formulated as recitations of excerpts by poets and novelists including Kodwo Eshun, Bessie Head, Kojo B. Laing, Ali A. Mazrui, Scholastique Mukasonga, Nnedi Okorafor, Yambo Ouologuem, Ousmane Sembène and Namwali Serpell in a reading that performs their writing as diagnosticians of their society. Search Sweet Country Dec 5, 2019; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm MA Curatorial Practice Project SpaceSchool of Visual Arts, NY ← Translations, remixes, re-recordings, and... http://evening-school.org/arac Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:52:13 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 387180 International Symposium of Another Roadmap School Africa ClusterFebruary 10–18, 2020, Johannesburg<img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6f84fc486d624ecff6e7c90d60244dde2432d482dfb876d176871706988c67a6/ARAC-Africa-Cluster-Johannesburg_Nyampeta.jpg" data-mid="992663" border="0" /> ← Another Roadmap for Arts Education Africa Cluster (ARAC) will convene for a symposium in the framework of research on the history of arts education undertaken within a network of educators, artists and researchers working in 4 continents around the world, initiated at the Institute for Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). The symposium is composed of internal working sessions alongside public workshops, exhibition, evening programmes, live music, performance, site visits, film screenings and coinciding with Lephephe Print Gatherings 4.Private and public screenings include works by&nbsp; Kader Attia, Rahima Gambo, Karrabing Film Collective, Mati Diop, Monique Mbeka Phoba, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Otolith Group, Amelia Umuhire, and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. International Symposium of Another Roadmap School Africa ClusterFebruary 10–18, 2020, Johannesburg ← Another Roadmap for Arts Education Africa Cluster (ARAC)... http://evening-school.org/africans Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:37:34 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 387149 The AfricansMarch 28, 2021WIELS Contemporary Avenue Van Volxem 354, 1190 Brussels<img width="1024" height="684" width_o="1024" height_o="684" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/22954993775bc6233ab1a5b107be22c59a4e8a88c5577f838fc8f193ca8de0ab/2-Christian-Nyampeta-Self-Portrait-As-Christopher-Okigbo.jpg" data-mid="992660" border="0" /><img width="1024" height="684" width_o="1024" height_o="684" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c557d64155221dd8c6080bcc35d4e76ced88b32e708987fc6665a6dba2ed2a21/2-Christian-Nyampeta-Self-Portrait-As-Christopher-Okigbo-1_S.jpg" data-mid="992659" border="0" /> ← A live radio play that portrays a battle between individualism, universalism and social collectivism. It stages key scenes of The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (1971), a novel by the late Kenyan philosopher and novelist Ali A. Mazrui.Following the death of Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) on the Biafran battlefield, illustrious figures drawn from every geographical corner and historical time meet at the “Grand Stadium of After Africa” to dialogue about the political vs aesthetic role of art. Within this grandiose scenery, we recognize episodes taken from Mazrui’s television series The Africans: A Triple Heritage (1986), which lays bare a history of the “standard of civilization” inscribed in the international system of states and borders, far beyond the African continent. Featuring: Phindile Dube,&nbsp; Prince Joshua Botongore, Moya Michael, Otobong Nkanga, Obi Okigbo and Mohamed Toukabri, and original musical compositions by Julien Simbi. Scriptorium: Shariffa Ali, Hannah Black, Rahima Gambo, Emmanuel Iduma, and Andros Zins-Browne. Co-commissioned by Chimurenga Pan African Space Station. The AfricansMarch 28, 2021WIELS Contemporary Avenue Van Volxem 354, 1190 Brussels ← A live radio play that portrays a battle between individualism,... http://evening-school.org/songs Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:37:33 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 386721 One Was Singing, the Other Was NotFriday, October 9, 20205pm Yokohama / 10am Joburg / 10am Kigali / 4pm New YorkAs part of Episōdo 03: Chasing the ScentYokohama Triennale 2020 <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e8696f283008f1194d40a645cc4cf3983662af0d11560ab1bc50c4f41125c6ca/Nyampeta-One-Was-Singing-5.jpg" data-mid="992662" border="0" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/22e7ed8ea01f65f87a9aea888bfd8991bcce8b4afda2a14e366397117ad94dc8/Nyampeta-One-Was-Singing-3.jpg" data-mid="992661" border="0" /> ← An audiovisual transmission that draws from ongoing lyrical performances and public programmes of collaborative translation and the singing of songs staged since 2018 in Rwanda and beyond, focusing on those songs found on YouTube where they attract widespread viewership and comments from the East African communities and diaspora across the globe.This transmission suggests that the digital marks of these originarily VHS tapes are not only the result of tangible fading from rewinds and replays, nor are they merely the obvious record of sociographic expulsions and archival decompositions. Rather, they are also sediments, interfaces or zones of contact between impossible loves unleashed by colonialism and sustained in the long hold of capitalisms, a composite of which amounts to or amplifies genocidal death, alongside the destruction caused by the attendant wars and development that come afterwards. In effect, the songs, dances and movements in this programme are monuments, repository sites or resting grounds for cultural memory. One Was Singing, the Other Was NotFriday, October 9, 20205pm Yokohama / 10am Joburg / 10am Kigali / 4pm New YorkAs part of Episōdo 03: Chasing the ScentYokohama... http://evening-school.org/action Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:34:03 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 381565 http://evening-school.org/programme Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:33:39 +0000 http://www.evening-school.org 381564